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Explaining something you just learned — a ten-minute writing prompt

Explain one thing you learned recently to someone who knows nothing about it.

What a child is asked afterwards

Explaining something you just learned

Imagine telling a younger kid something you just found out. Write it.

Everyone gets the same subject. What differs is the follow-up: one question for children, two for teens, three for adults. Only the children's wording is simplified.

Where people usually get stuck on this one

When it reads flat

Find the sentence you are least sure about. What you actually meant is usually hiding there.

When the first line won't come

Skip it and start at the second. The opening writes itself once the rest exists.

When it all sounds obvious

Delete every line anyone could have written. What is left is yours.

Today's constraints on this prompt

No 'thing'

'Thing' hides the real word. Name it.

Include one number

'Three years' always beats 'a long time'.

Open in 5 words or fewer

Lose them in line one and the rest never happens.

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